Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-11-30
FOREIGN JOTTINGS.

PARIS has 60O0 costermongers who 90
from door to door with barrows and hand
| carts.
A LAW has recently been adopted in
Switzerland, placing in the hands of the
| Government the manufacture of all wines
and liquors.
THE largest crystal of alum believed to
have ever been made, was exhibited at the
| royal jubilee at Manchester, Eng. 1t was
six feet in diameter and twelve feet high.
The libraries of Abyssina are said to
| somewhat resemble a baggage-room more
than book repositories. The volumes are
huge affairs in manuscript, bound about by
straps and hung up on pegs in the walls.
THREE nurses who have served in the
Zulu war, as well as IN Egypt and England,
were recently endowed with the decoration
Of the Royal Red Cross, a new decoration,
by the Queen of England.
THE subject of Antartic exploration is
again agitated, and the Australian colo.
MES propose to contribute $4,000 toward
the expense of such an enterprise, if the
British Government will send out an expe-
1ition.
GIANT female figure to serve as a light
house is proposed TO be erected on Sydney
Heads in oommemoration Of the centenary
"a ANCW OouNu w dlcos dllcT Tic ldSnlOn OF
Bartholdls Statue of Liberty in New York
harbor.
A NEW industry has been introduced in
Italy in the extraction of oil from grape seed.
In the process the seeds are dried, ground,
boiled and pressed. From twenty five
ounces of seed little less than an ounce of
oil IS extracted.
1T is rumored that Paris is in tumult
ever the diecovery of frauds in the recent
sale of the crown jewels. A syndicate of
Partisan jewelers. and Government officials
combined to foist upon foreign buyers
number of ordinary gems.
AsTATIC TURKEY has for the fourth year in
succession suffered severely from locusts.
The Turks who have never yet made a road,
built bridge, formed a railway, or sent ont
ship from native yards, are not exactly
the race to cope with this terrible scourge.
The girls normal schools and other high
educational establishments in Japan arc ad-
mirably conducted, and ladies now begin TO
| go into society, in the company of their hus-
oands-an unheard-of proceeding ten years
ago. New marriage laws have been drafted,
and arc TO be put in force.
BESIDES its 100000. 900 pounds of bread and
sOo,OOO.O0O pounds of meat, Paris drinks
more than l50OO0,OOO gallons of wine and
| 2,OO,OO gallons Of spirits, and smokes
455OO,OOO francs worth of tobacco yearly.
and, besides those who dine at home. ann.
ports 23,643 eating houses.
The town museum Of Mayence, Germany
has lately come into possession Of the oldest
Jewish gravestone in that country. 1t was
discovered near Mayence over a brook
where II served as a stePping-stone until
Rabbi Lehman found that it bore, under the
dirt OF ages, in Hebrew characters the date
I 4Sfn A NJ nnna1 20 A
TEN years ago, American enterurse re-
vealed the course of the upper Congo river
in Africa 70 the world. Today company
organized and largely directed by Ameri-
cans, Is among the first to display in Eu-
rope products Of the Upper Congo, which
its own agents have forwarded from their
stations beyond the cataract region in the
far interior.
IN Rome Is the Via Merulana convent. the
nuns of which are never permitted to behold
man, the priest even being screened IN saw.
ing mass. They remain in the convent
until death, never leaving it for any cause
whatever. They never undress for repose.
but spend half the night in prayer, and keep,
except in extreme cases Of illness, a per-
peSual abstinence from meat They make
almost every thing they use, even to shoes
aud medicines.
II Sweden and Norway the attempt has
been made to meet the alcoholic problem by
what is called the ''Gothenburge system. ~
No liquors can be sold except at places
where good food and non-alcoholic drinks
are also kept on hand, and while the dealer
Is permitted TO make the usual profit on the
latter, he is not allowed TO make any profit
on the liquor he sells. This regulation an
ticipates that dealers viii therefore dis
courage the sale and use Of alcoholic drinks
by endeavoring to make more profits on the
others.